Merit Badges

Boy Scout Merit Badge requirements we can help fulfill are:

• Gardening: We can provide training and information on how to build and maintain a compost or vermicompost bin.

• Environmental Science: We can provide a presentation that discusses our local recycling program to satisfy an activity requirement for the “Resource Recovery” category. We can also be a resource if the troop would like to do a specific project relating to waste reduction, recycling, reusing, composting, or littering.

• Pulp and Paper: We offer presentations to discuss papermaking and the importance of recycling. We also provide materials and training for the troop to each make a sheet of paper by hand.

Brownie Try-its we can help complete are:

• Earth is Our Home: We offer interactive presentations on household hazardous waste and recycling.

• Numbers and Shapes: Did you know that the chasing arrows symbol that is associated with recycling is a mobius strip? We can engage Brownies to make their own mobius strips while educating about recycling.

• Science Wonders: We provide materials and training for the troop to each make homemade recycled paper. We bring the recycled paper, screens, and tubs, and you provide the girl power.

• Watching Wildlife: Solid Waste Division has a number of worm bins that we use for vermicomposting lessons. We have a worm presentation where we bring magnifying lenses so Brownies can get up close and personal to the worms. Besides learning about the anatomy of the worm, they learn how the worm is an important recycler in the animal kingdom.

Junior Girl Scout Badge requirements we can help complete are:

• Car Care: We can provide information on what parts or products in a car can be recycled to satisfy the “As We Live and Breathe category.

• Environmental Health: We offer interactive presentations on household hazardous waste and recycling. Junior Girl Scouts can use this information to “Get the Word Out” and to create a commercial based on safe waste disposal.

• Earth Connections: We provide presentations on waste disposal and discuss where our garbage goes. Under “Earth as an Ecosystem” the Junior Girl Scouts can learn about the problems of running out of landfill sites for garbage.

• Eco-Action: Our interactive presentations on reducing, reusing, and recycling can provide background information to help satisfy the categories of “Green Team” and “Trashy Art”.

• Outdoors in the City: After learning about where our garbage goes, the Junior Girl Scouts can “Tackle a Community Service Project” by picking up litter at a city or county park.

• Your Outdoor Surroundings: We offer a lesson on smart shopping and waste reduction. Participating in the activity focusing on the weight and waste of excess packaging satisfies the “Pack it Up” and “What Does Minimal Impact Mean?” categories.

• Discovering Technology: Our Recycling 101 activity provides the basis for satisfying the “Recycling Technology” category. The girls will see materials made of recycled content, engage in a recycling relay race, and discuss the pros and cons of disposable vs. durable products.

• “Making” Hobbies: After the Recycling 101 presentation, we can provide some ideas for the girls to “Make a Recycled Craft” and to come up with new ways to create “Your Own Gift Wrap”.

• Toymaker: Similarly, we can provide ideas for girls to create a trash toy to satisfy the “Trash It!” category and can discuss the benefits and ways to engage in “Toy Recycling”.

• Making It Matter: An interactive presentation on household hazardous waste can satisfy the “Label Check” category. Specific dangers associated with common household items will be discussed as well as where to dispose of them and safer alternatives.

Girl Scouts 11-17 Interest Project Award requirements we can help complete are:

• Eco-Action: Learn about Kitsap County’s recycling program and how you can reduce, reuse, and recycle your waste.

• Paper Works: After learning about papermaking and the importance of recycling, each member of the troop will make a sheet of paper by hand.

• Wildlife: We can provide information on household hazardous waste such as insecticides, herbicides and fungicides. By playing “Toxic Bingo”, girls can learn safer alternatives of these products.

• Planet Power: The girls will see materials made of recycled content, engage in a recycling relay race, discuss the pros and cons of disposable vs. durable products, and learn to avoid purchasing items that are over packaged. In addition, we can help the girls teach others how to make recycled paper with our Papermaking Class.

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Kitsap County Public Works
Solid Waste Division
(360) 337-5777 or (800) 825-4940
solidwaste@co.kitsap.wa.us